Social Quotes - page 6

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. (Carroll Quigley)
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. View quote
Carroll Quigley
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. View quote
Mark Twain
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. View quote
Albert Einstein
Thus the Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit. View quote
John Ralston Saul
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. View quote
John Ralston Saul
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? View quote
Andy Stern
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. (Penelope Lively)
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. View quote
Penelope Lively
Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today. View quote
Annette Funicello
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? View quote
Robert Sternberg
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. View quote
Thom Mayne
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. View quote
Thom Mayne
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. View quote
Ulrich Beck
The effects of 6 months of total social isolation were so devastating and debilitating that we had assumed initially that 12 months of isolation would not produce any additional decrement. This assumption proved to be false; 12 months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially. View quote
Harry Harlow
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own. View quote
Charles Cooley
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. (Charles Cooley)
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. View quote
James Hillman
Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy. View quote
Jerry Rubin